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 Install [Postgres.app](http://postgresapp.com/). You will need admin on your machine to do this.
 
+### Redis
+
+To switch redis on you'll need to install it locally. On a OSX we've used brew for this.
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 ##  To run the application
 
 You need to run the api application and a local celery instance.